Do What you Love

In Yoga Sanctuary's Yoga Teacher Training, with Sara Rose Page and Lisa Leizman, you will learn to teach alignment based yoga (both hatha and flow) over 10 weekends from September to June.

Features

200/hr teacher training (eligibility for 200 RYT registration)

Philosophy weekend with Dr. Douglas Brooks

Anatomy of Yoga Online Course with Martin Kirk

30 free classes to use at Yoga Sanctuary

Learn to Teach Yoga Teacher Training is an inspiring opportunity for your own growth and transformation, to be nurtured as you find your voice and learn to teach yoga with clarity, skill and warmth of heart.

Teaching exercises, designing teaching curriculum, and sequencing are regular parts of the training. You will learn to instruct poses clearly and succinctly, with language skills that inspire your students to express their poses from the inside out.

"Sara and Lisa co-teaching the Yoga Teacher Training Program create this amazing well-rounded sphere that contains the foundation of not only building a strong asana practice but also philosophy and what yoga truly means to you as person, a yogi and someone whom is embarking on becoming a teacher. When Sara tells you at the beginning of training it is a life changing experience, it truly is and during this transformation you are supported in a very safe and loving atmosphere from everyone. From monkeying around, learning about Hanuman and the other stories that yoga philosophy is richly steeped in to learning how to adeptly spot misalignment in your students, the teacher training program sets you up to become as great a teacher as you allow yourself to grow because the learning doesn’t stop when the program is over. Sara and Lisa give you so much knowledge for you to explore on your own, you pursue what is meaningful to you so that you may pass that great and beautiful knowledge on to everyone else that you meet. Your eyes are truly opened to the greater, wider world." --Brittany A. 2017

Details

Prerequisite: Minimum of at least one year active (2x week) yoga practice required.

TUITION:

Standard Tuition (after July 15): $3200*

Standard Tuition YS Members (after July 15) : $3150

Early Bird Rate (paid in full before July 15): $3100* (Save $100)

Early Bird Rate YS Members: $3050

*includes 30 free classes to use at Yoga Sanctuary

$25 Application fee & Non-refundable deposit of $500 due with application ($500 deposit included in training tuition, refunded if you are not accepted into training)

• Design and teach an 8 week beginner yoga course (during the last 2 months)• Co-teach a yoga class with your fellow teacher trainees (during the last 2 months)• 30 Free classes to use at Yoga Sanctuary during the YTT months• 15 hours of Online Anatomy Webinar with Martin Kirk lifetime access• A weekend of Philosophy with Douglas Brooks (rajanaka.com)

Additional hours (outside YTT weekends) include:

3 hours of assisting

10 hours practice teaching on your own

written and reading homework completed each weekend

Need to miss a day or weekend? Exceptions are only possible for emergency or other major life events if you want to be eligible for Yoga Alliance Certification, and the hours must be made up with instructors. There may be additional fees for make-up hours.

*In order to graduate from this program, you will need to fulfill certain requirements. Attendance at all training workshops. You may miss only 24 hours of class time, but those hours must be made up with approved workshops or projects. Written homework assignments must be completed

Certification: Students who successfully fulfill all requirements will receive a certificate of completion from Yoga Sanctuary and will be eligible for 200-Hour Yoga Alliance RYT (Registered Yoga Teacher) status.

Lisa Leizman

Lisa has taught at Yoga Sanctuary for over 6 years. She has extensive experience teaching yoga, dance and philosophy and completed her Anusara Teacher Training with Sara Rose in 2008.

Early one spring morning, sitting on a park bench. Not really sure why or how I came to be there, sitting on a park bench, outside of the yoga studio. What I do know is that I want to go in there. But, what is yoga? What do people learn? What do they actually do in there?

Sitting on a park bench, early one spring morning. Maybe I could just go home.Is yoga more than physical poses? What is that breathing stuff all about? Why am I afraid? Not really sure why or how I came to be there.Sitting on this park bench, early in the morning. I could just go home.

Why am I afraid?What I do know is that I want to go in there.Eventually, curiosity and desire get the better of me.Get up.Go in.

Now, fifteen years later, when I teach yoga, I return again and again to this first experience—the curiosity and fear, the desire and doubt and what took hold so vividly in my imagination. Here was a field of study that engaged all parts of being human: a warm and open invitation into a world of delightful and challenging physical possibilities that I had never explored, a rich philosophical tradition that was asintellectually stimulating as it was complex and a place of creative expression and innovation within an evolving tradition. Here was a place to breathe. How or why you find yourself on the park bench can stay a mystery. On any day, yoga welcomes you just as you are.Get up.Go in.

sara rose page

Sara Rose is an Experienced 500 Hour Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance (E-RYT) and owner of Yoga Sanctuary since 1999. She has been honored to train hundreds of yogis to become yoga teachers, through the curriculum which she has developed and refined for well over a decade. And what a joy to continue to grow and offer this training with respected colleague and YS teacher, Lisa Leizman!

Sara's background in yoga spans over 2 decades of learning and teaching, including 10 years as a certified Anusara yoga teacher where she learned therapeutic alignment principles and the art of teaching with a theme, core practices which she still uses today. Sara offers clear and empowering alignment instruction infused with uplifitng philosophical teachings that inspire us to live everyday with courage, curiosity and compassion. She has studied extensively with world-renowned philosophy expert Dr. Douglas Brooks in Rajanaka Tantra and the Esoteric Traditions of the Goddess. Sara came to yoga in her teenage years in search of healing and her passion for yoga has been a constant since then. It is Sara's intention to support every student to begin where they are, in body and heart, to find self-acceptance and discover their capacity for unique and authentic self- expression on and off the mat.

yoga Teacher Training APplication

Below is a sample application. The 2018-2019 class has been postponed.

Please contact us using the form below if you are interested in joining a future YTT!

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Yoga Teacher Training Application

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Have you attended any Yoga Teacher Trainings? If so, when and with what teacher(s)? *

Who is your greatest yoga influence? *

Do you practice handstand and full wheel (urdhva dhanurasana)? *

* this is not necessary to be accepted

Do you have any physical limitations in your practice? *

What other relevant experiences do you bring to your study of yoga? *

What are your goals in this Teacher Training program? *

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Are you currently teaching yoga? If so, where and at what level? *

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If you cancel 30 days before the start of the program you receive your payment less the $500 deposit. If you cancel 15-30 days before of the start of the program, you will forfeit your $500 deposit and 50% of tuition already paid. No refunds 0-14 days before the start of the program. If you cancel within 14 days before the start of the program or do not attend the program, the entire deposit and program tuition is non-refundable and non-transferable. Once the program begins the program tuition is non-refundable and non-transferable.

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PAYMENT INFORMATION & CANCELLATION POLICY

A $500 deposit is due upon enrollment to hold your spot. Your payment is due in full by the early registration date in order to receive discounted rate. Full payment is required a by September 1st unless a payment plan has been previously arranged. Deposits are non-refundable.

If you cancel 30 days before the start of the program you receive your payment less the $500 deposit. If you cancel 15-30 days before of the start of the program, you will forfeit your $500 deposit and 50% of tuition already paid. No refunds 0-14 days before the start of the program. If you cancel within 14 days before the start of the program or do not attend the program, the entire deposit and program tuition is non-refundable and non-transferable. Once the program begins the program tuition is non-refundable and non-transferable.